Server cabinet

ABSTRACT

A cabinet includes a housing, two slide rails, and a door. The housing includes two opposite side plates, a top plate connected between tops of the side plates, and a bottom plate connected between bottoms of the side plates. The slide rails are respectively fixed to the top plate and bottom plate, and connected between the side plates. The door is foldable and includes a number of door pieces. Top and bottom ends of the door piece are slidably mounted to the corresponding slide rails.

BACKGROUND

1. Technical Field

The present disclosure relates to a server cabinet.

2. Description of Related Art

A door of a server cabinet is generally rotatably attached to thehousing of the cabinet. Therefore, space must be reserved for swingingthe door open, which is a waste space, considering that other than theoccasions of opening the door, the reserved space remains unused.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

Many aspects of the present embodiments can be better understood withreference to the following drawings. The components in the drawings arenot necessarily drawn to scale, the emphasis instead being placed uponclearly illustrating the principles of the present embodiments.Moreover, in the drawings, all the views are schematic, and likereference numerals designate corresponding parts throughout the severalviews.

FIG. 1 is an isometric view of an exemplary embodiment of a servercabinet.

FIG. 2 is an enlarged view of a circled portion II of FIG. 1.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION

The disclosure, including the accompanying drawings, is illustrated byway of example and not by way of limitation. It should be noted thatreferences to “an” or “one” embodiment in this disclosure are notnecessarily to the same embodiment, and such references mean at leastone.

Referring to FIGS. 1 and 2, an exemplary embodiment of a server cabinetincludes a housing 10, a door 20, two elongated slide rails 30, and aplurality of slide blocks 40.

The housing 10 includes two opposite side plates 12, a top plate 11connected between top ends of the side plates 12, and a bottom plate 13connected between bottom ends of the side plates 12.

The slide rails 30 are respectively fixed to inner surfaces of frontends of the top plate 11 and the bottom plate 13, between andperpendicular to the slide plates 12. A slide slot 31 is longitudinallydefined in each slide rail 30, with an opening 32 of the slide slot 31facing the other slide rail 30. A width of the opening 32 is less than awidth of the slide slot 31.

The slide blocks 40 are slidably mounted to the corresponding sliderails 30. Each slide block 40 includes a main body 41 received in thecorresponding slide slot 31, and a mounting tab 42 extendingperpendicularly from the main body 41 to extend through thecorresponding opening 32. A hooking hole 421 is defined in each mountingtab 42.

The door 20 is foldable and includes a plurality of door pieces 21connected in series. The door pieces 21 may be made of metal or plastic.A side of the door piece 21 adjacent to one of the side plates 12 isfixed to a front end of the side plate 12. Two hooks 23 respectivelyprotrude from a top end and a bottom end of each door piece 21. Thehooks 23 extend through the corresponding hooking holes 421 to hook thecorresponding mounting pieces 42. Therefore, the door pieces 21 can befolded or spread under the slide blocks 40 sliding in the correspondingslide slots 31, to cover or expose the interior of the housing 10.

It is believed that the present embodiments and their advantages will beunderstood from the foregoing description, and various changes may bemade thereto without departing from the spirit and scope of thedescription or sacrificing all of their material advantages, theexamples hereinbefore described merely being exemplary embodiments.

What is claimed is:
 1. A cabinet comprising: a housing comprising twoopposite side plates, a top plate connected between top ends of the sideplates, and a bottom plate connected between bottom ends of the sideplates; two slide rails respectively fixed to inner surfaces of the topplate and the bottom plate, and connected between the two opposite sideplates; and a foldable door comprising a plurality of door pieces, topand bottom ends of each door piece slidably mounted to the correspondingslide rails.
 2. The cabinet of claim 1, wherein a slide slot islongitudinally defined in each slide rail, a plurality of slide blocksis slidably received in the slide slots of the corresponding sliderails, the top and bottom ends of the door pieces are mounted to thecorresponding slide blocks.
 3. The cabinet of claim 2, wherein anopening of each slide slot faces the other slide rail, each slide blockcomprises a main body received in the corresponding slide slot and amounting tab extending from the main body to extend through thecorresponding opening, each mounting tab defines a hooking hole, twohooks protrude from the top and bottom ends of each door piece to extendthrough the corresponding hooking hole to hook the correspondingmounting tabs.
 4. The cabinet of claim 1, wherein the door is made ofmetal or plastic.